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Quotes from Poetry International Programme note — Ted Hughes

1930–1998 England

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We now give more serious weight to the words of a country's poets than to the words of its politicians — though we know the latter may interfere more drastically with our lives.

Poetry International Programme note (1967)

However rootedly national it may be, poetry is less and less the prisoner of its own language.

Poetry International Programme note (1967)

The idea of global unity is not new, but the absolute necessity of it has only just arrived, like a sudden radical alteration of the sun, and we shall have to adapt or disappear.

Poetry International Programme note (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ted Hughes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.